France
People of this nationality
Alain I of Albret
1448 – 1522
politician
Jacques Paisible
1656 – 1721
composer
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
1859 – 1940
engineer
Louis Boyer
1901 – 1999
astronomer
Michèle de Saint Laurent
1926 – 2003
carcinologist
Émile Cartailhac
1845 – 1921
speleologist
Benoît Broutchoux
1879 – 1944
anarcho-syndicalist
Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais
1701 – 1785
jurist
Louis Bouët
1880 – 1969
politician
Louis Emmanuel Rey
1768 – 1846
military personnel
Jules François Émile Krantz
1821 – 1914
naval officer
Jordan Guitton
b. 1995
politician
Pierre Robert Olivétan
1505 – 1538
theologian
Frédéric Bérat
1801 – 1855
composer
Bangaly Fofana
b. 1989
basketball player
Mohamed Gouaida
b. 1993
association football player
Rémi Bonfils
b. 1988
rugby union player
Denise Batcheff
1906 – 2000
film editor
Jean Cappus
1689 – 1751
composer
Ludovic Martin
b. 1976
sport cyclist
Frédérique Meunier
b. 1960
politician
Maurice Cottenet
1895 – 1972
association football player
Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers
1837 – 1922
banker
Stéphane Blancafort
b. 1970
film actor
Augustin Thierry
1795 – 1856
historian
Hugo Travers
b. 1997
vlogger
Henri Loevenbruck
b. 1972
writer
Gérard Bapt
b. 1946
politician
Jules Siegfried
1837 – 1922
politician
Ziad Takieddine
1950 – 2025
businessperson
Camille Walala
b. 1975
artist
Daniel Moratelli
b. 1961
curler
François-Xavier Bellamy
b. 1985
politician
Roger Chauviré
1880 – 1957
professor of French literature
Ingmar Lazar
b. 1993
classical pianist
Mickael Korvin
b. 1957
writer
Jacques Dohen
1930 – 2005
athletics competitor
Joseph Bernardo
1929 – 2023
swimmer
Eugene-Rene Arsal
1884 – 1972
sculptor
Alfred Barye
1839 – 1895
sculptor
Karl Daubigny
1846 – 1886
painter
Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène
1684 – 1748
fabulist
Pierre Probst
1913 – 2007
writer
Alain le Pichon
b. 1944
anthropologist
Julien Tadrowski
b. 1993
association football player
Guy Péqueux
1942 – 2021
painter
Denis Duverne
b. 1953
businessperson
Sébastien Hamel
b. 1975
association football player
Albert Wolff
1906 – 1989
fencer
Charles Bozon
1932 – 1964
alpine skier
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini
1802 – 1885
geographer
Pascal Cygan
b. 1974
association football player
Sébastien Pietrasanta
b. 1977
politician
Bernard de Soissons
b. 1300
architect
Pierre-Michel-François Chevalier
1812 – 1863
journalist
Costa-Gavras
b. 1933
film director
Charles Pous
1949 – 2015
field hockey player
Curnonsky
1872 – 1956
ghostwriter
Henri-Pierre Castelnau
1814 – 1890
military officer
Georges Dupont
1903 – 1983
sprinter
Claire Guichard
b. 1967
politician
Roger Dutoit
1923 – 1988
film actor
Eugène Brieux
1858 – 1932
journalist
Esther Lamandier
b. 1946
singer
Georges Daumezon
1912 – 1979
psychiatrist
Dominique de Williencourt
b. 1959
cellist
Étienne Fouvry
b. 2000
mathematician
George Pau-Langevin
b. 1948
politician
Yann Tiersen
b. 1970
composer
István Nyers
1924 – 2005
association football player
Jacques Garelli
1931 – 2014
poet
Charles Blanvillain
b. 1981
musician
Lazare Picault
1700 – 1748
explorer
Jacques Roques
1897 – 1988
military personnel
Christine Guinaudeau
b. 1978
athletics competitor
Gerbert de Montreuil
poet
Louis Nattero
1870 – 1915
painter
Alain Louyot
b. 1948
war correspondent
Dominique Lacaud
b. 1952
racing automobile driver
Pierre Joseph Pelletier
1788 – 1842
chemist
Christian-Jaque
1904 – 1994
director
Pons de Monlaur
troubadour
Alain Lipietz
b. 1947
economist
Georges Danion
1922 – 2005
organ builder
H. Maurice Jacquet
1886 – 1954
composer
Aurélien Scholl
1833 – 1902
journalist
Pierre Souquès
1910 – 2007
politician
Pascal Markowsky
b. 1954
politician
Albert-Marie Schmidt
1901 – 1966
linguist
Georges Hébert
1875 – 1957
naval officer
Daniel Percheron
b. 1942
politician
Louis-Michel Aury
1786 – 1821
privateer
Adrienne Ranc-Sakakini
1916 – 2014
French resistance fighter
Didier Sellos
b. 1957
chess player
Charles Joseph Gravier
1865 – 1937
zoologist
René Lemarant de Kerdaniel
1777 – 1862
Officer of the French Navy
Jean-Pierre Laflaquière
b. 1947
civil servant
Jean-Charles Boisset
b. 1969
wine merchant
François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville
1700 – 1770
diplomat
Stéphane Persol
b. 1968
association football player